DigiPen Early Career Program — Fall 2026

Build the games
that run in the bay.

We’re hiring 8 early-career roles to build Obsidian — the projected game experience inside every Strike Arena venue.

Open roles

Pick your discipline.

Runs sprint planning, scope and schedule for a cross-discipline team building to a fixed ship date.

Designs game modes, scoring systems and difficulty balance, then prototypes and tunes them in Unity or Unreal.

Builds game modes in Unreal or Unity and integrates the live hit-coordinate feed from the arena hardware.

Creates the 3D environments, lighting and gameplay VFX for each mode, optimized for large-scale projection.

Models, rigs and animates characters, creatures and bosses, and delivers them as working in-engine assets.

Designs the in-round HUD, surrounding screens and tutorial flow, and specs them for gameplay programmers to build.

Paints key art, cover art and loading screens, holding one visual identity across each mode's set of pieces.

Builds the SFX library, composes adaptive per-mode music, and implements the audio in-engine.